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Project Tango is the name of a new project initiated by the company Google, the Americans developing a smartphone that is capable of generating 3D maps of the environment in which the users are and not only that. Being part of a project that does not aim to bring the smartphone to market, Project Tango was conceived with the idea of discovering new methods by which the experience of using mobile terminals can be improved, 200 developers for the platform Android having the opportunity to test the product.
The smartphone of those from Google it is equipped with motion sensors, sensors that perceive depth, with cameras capable of scanning the environment in 3D and with 2 processors capable of analyzing all these images. The smartphone with a 5-inch screen is developed on the basis of a special hardware configured by Google and can monitor the entire movement of a user in any type of room, it being mainly thought to generate maps of the rooms and not open spaces.
Through Project Tango, Google is trying to take things to the "next level" in terms of mapping the interior of buildings, but a smartphone like this will not be available to the general public very soon, as it is specially designed to fulfill one function, that of mapping the interior the buildings.
